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NO SHORTAGE OF CAMPFIRES

pertinent subjects, on discussions specifically focused on
the best mechanism that makes the Army flexible and
adaptable: the ability to discern an operational COG.
Finally, during any campfire forum, the Army should be

willing to invite other services to garner the benefits of
“joint talk” and exchange. There may be shortages of
resources, but being “as ample at one season as at another”
there is no certainly no shortage of campfires.68

Col. John Culclasure, U.S. Air Force, Retired, is an assistant professor in the Department of Joint, Interagency,
Intergovernmental, and Multinational Operations, Command and General Staff College, Fort Belvoir satellite campus. He holds a B.S. in biology from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and an M.S. in aviation
management and aeronautical science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. In the Air Force, Col. Culclasure
served in a variety of command and staff assignments and flew over 3,900 hours as a B-52 pilot.

Notes
Epigraph. Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods (Boston
and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890), 38.
1. Discussions (electronic) with reference archivist, Dwight
D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, 200 SE 4th St. P.O. Box 339
Abilene, KS 67410 (19 June 2014).
2. Ibid.
3. Dwight D. Eisenhower, At Ease: Stories I Tell My Friends (New
York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967), 186.
4. Ibid.
5. The Wall Street Journal, “Obama’s Shrinking Army,” Wall
Street Journal, Review & Outlook section (28 February 2014).
6. Eisenhower, At Ease, 68-69.
7. Ibid., 3.
8. Ibid., 126.
9. Ibid., 186.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Thoreau.
17. Warren Robilliard, “Mentoring,” Sports Coach, 28(1), Australian Sports Commission Web site, http://www.ausport.gov.au/
sportscoachmag/program_management2/mentoring.
18. Joint Force Quarterly, Strategic Studies Notes, “The Warrior Preparation Center: Training Transformation Defined,” Joint
Force Quarterly, 42 (3rd Quarter, 2006): 55.
19. Eisenhower, At Ease, 185.
20. Ibid., 186.
21. Joint Publication ( JP) 5-0, Joint Operation Planning (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office [GPO], 11 August
2011), GL-13.
22. Warren Robilliard.
23. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack [sic]; Selections From the Apothegms, and Proverbs, with a Brief Sketch of the
Life of Benjamin Franklin, (Waterloo, Iowa: U.S.C. Publishing Co.,
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1914), 20.
24. Thom Shanker, “After Years at War, the Army Adapts to
Garrison Life”, New York Times, (18 January 2014).
25. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (Garden City,
NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948), 18-19. In this portion of
Eisen